Welcome to CGHE

We are an international research centre focused on higher education and its future development.

Registration open for CGHE's 2018 annual conference

Registration is open for CGHE’s 2018 annual conference, The new geopolitics of higher education. The conference will take place on 11 April at the UCL Institute of Education and will include a keynote from Professor Michael Ignatieff, President of Central European University, who will give this year’s Burton R. Clark lecture on higher education on ‘Academic freedom and the future of Europe’.

This research programme investigates the ways in which higher education can lead to greater equality and social mobility, and how policy can anticipate its social and economic effects. Claire Callender leads this programme.

This research programme investigates the ways in which UK higher education is embedded in communities, labour markets and government, and how it can enhance its impacts. James Wilsdon leads this programme.

Publications

CGHE’s working papers, reports and policy briefings reflect the work in progress of our academics and others whose work directly addresses our research programmes.